Anna El-Khashem
Anna El-Khashem (born February 7, 1996 in St. Petersburg ) is a Russian opera and concert singer (soprano).
Life
Training and first appearances
Anna El-Khashem's parents, the Lebanon-born father and the Russian mother, are both doctors and have supported her childhood goal of pursuing a career as a musician. During her school days she sang in the choir of a music school and was accepted at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory at the age of 17. There she studied with Svetlana Gorenkova and took part in master classes with Elena Obraztsova , Larisa Gergieva, Brigitte Fassbaender , Anna Tomowa-Sintow , Edith Wiens and Natalie Dessay .
At the Bregenz Festival in July 2016, she performed as a soprano soloist in the opening service broadcast on the radio and as Bastienne in a concert performance of Bastien and Bastienne , which the evening before commemorated the foundation of the Festival 70 years ago.
Development as an opera singer
From the 2016/2017 season to 2018/2019 season, she was a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera, participated in its annual productions and completed her studies in St. Petersburg during this time. She became known to the audience of the Bavarian State Opera in January 2017 as Xenia in Boris Godunow . At the premieres of the new productions of Oberon , Le nozze di Figaro , Ilertrico and The Bartered Bride , which were also streamed as video streams on staatsoper.tv , she was involved in middle roles. Further attention, which also led to the award as Young Artist of the Year by the magazine Opernwelt, found her in the production "Show me your miracles" as part of the festival workshop in June 2018, which with her in the title role in Nicolai Rimski-Korsakow's opera Snow Maiden was based. Since the 2019/2020 season she has been a member of the ensemble at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden , made her house and role debut as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte there in September 2019 and was soprano soloist in a staged performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion from January 2020 .
Opera roles and engagements (selection)
| Debut in | role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-01 | Xenia ( Boris Godunow ) | Bavarian State Opera |
| 2017-07 | Sea girl ( Oberon ) | Bavarian State Opera |
| 2017-10 | Barbarina ( Le nozze di Figaro ) | Bavarian State Opera |
| 2017-12 | Genovieffa ( Suor Angelica ) | Bavarian State Opera |
| 2018-04 | Eve ( The Broken Jug, Viktor Ullmann ) | Bavarian State Opera (Cuvilliés Theater) |
| 2018-12 | Esmeralda ( The Bartered Bride ) | Bavarian State Opera |
| 2019-04 | Parasha ( Mavra ) | Bavarian State Opera (Cuvilliés Theater) |
| 2019-08 | Susanna ( Le nozze di Figaro ) | New Generation Festival, Florence |
| 2019-09 | Pamina ( The Magic Flute ) | State Theater Wiesbaden |
| 2019-11 | Gretel ( Hansel and Gretel ) | State Theater Wiesbaden |
Concert repertoire
- Alessandro Scarlatti : Part of Abel in Il primo homicidio
- Carl Maria von Weber : Mass No. 2 in G major op.76 (Jubilee Mass )
- Songs with piano accompaniment by Ernest Chausson , Franz Liszt , Sergej Rachmaninoff , Robert Schumann , among others ; The Italian Songbook by Hugo Wolf
Prizes and awards
- 2nd prize (2008) and 1st prize (2010) of the Elena Obraztsova International Competition for Young Singers
- 1st Prize of the Zara Dolukhanova Singing Competition Amber Nightingale in Kaliningrad (2016)
- 1st prize and special prize for the best interpretation of a vocal work by WA Mozart at the International Mozart Competition , Salzburg 2018
- Trude Eipperle Rieger Prize for talented singers (2018)
- Award as "Young Singer of the Year" in the critics' survey of Opernwelt magazine (2018)
- 1st prize at the NEUE STIMMEN international singing competition of the Bertelsmann Foundation (2019)
Web links
- Anna El-Khashem at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Anna El-Khashem Official Website
- Anna El-Khashem agency profile
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Markus Thiel: Critics' survey by the magazine “OPERNWELT”: Anna El-Khashem is up-and-coming singer of the year. In: Münchner Merkur. September 27, 2018, accessed September 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Beatrice Ossberger: Opera singer Anna El-Khashem: “I can't deal with envy” (interview). Welt, November 26, 2018, accessed November 26, 2018 .
- ^ Profile of Anna El-Khashem. In: Opera Musica. Retrieved February 16, 2018 .
- ^ A b Jan Wieczorek: Festival mass (announcement). Catholic Church in Bregenz, July 10, 2016, accessed on February 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Katharina von Glasenapp : The Bregenz Festival began 70 years ago with Mozart on the boat: Now “Bastien and Bastienne” is being played again in the Gondelhafen. Schwäbische, July 20, 2016, accessed on February 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Anna El-Khashem (short biography and event history). Bavarian State Opera, accessed February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Egbert Tholl: Snow Maiden, fly! "Show me your miracles" according to Rimsky-Korsakov. In: Süddeusche Zeitung. June 27, 2018, accessed June 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Klaus Kalchschmid: Russian soul. HOOK-AND-STAB, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Show me your miracles. In: The German Stage. June 27, 2018, accessed June 30, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Damian Kern: WIESBADEN / State Theater: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE. In: Online marker. October 4, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 .
- ^ Ingrid Freiberg: Wiesbaden, Hessisches Staatstheater, Matthäus-Passion - Johann Sebastian Bach, IOCO Review, February 4th, 2020. In: ioco culture on the net. February 4, 2020, accessed February 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Thomas Molke: Munich Opera Festival 2017: Oberon, King of the Elves. Online Musik Magazin, July 27, 2017, accessed on February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Roberto Becker: Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro's wedding) - Small person and large door. Online Musik Magazin, October 26, 2017, accessed on February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Norman Schwarze: Reduced to the essentials: Ilertrico provides musical highlights at the Bavarian State Opera. backtrack, December 22, 2017, accessed February 16, 2018 .
- ^ Robert Braunmüller: One-act play with the opera studio in the Cuvilliéstheater. Evening newspaper, April 15, 2018, accessed on April 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Christa Sigg: Love test on the dung heap. In: Schwäbische Zeitung. December 23, 2018, accessed December 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Susanne Kittel-May: MUNICH / Cuvilliéstheater: MAVRA / IOLANTA - Opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera. Premiere. In: Online marker. April 16, 2019, accessed April 16, 2019 .
- ^ Peter Krause: Opera review: New Generation Festival - Le nozze di Figaro. In: Concerti. August 31, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .
- ^ Egbert Tholl: Short review: The first murder; The Jakobsplatz Orchestra with an oratorio by Scarlatti. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 7, 2018, accessed on June 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Playlist with video examples from Anna El-Khashem. Retrieved February 22, 2018 .
- ^ Fritz Jurmann: A dream couple of song singing. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten. August 20, 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 .
- ↑ 13th International Mozart Singing Competition: Results. Mozarteum University Salzburg, accessed on February 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Elizabeth Aumiller: Young Voices on the rise (Final Concert Mozart Competition 2018). DrehPunktKultur, February 16, 2018, accessed on February 17, 2018 .
- ↑ The Prize Winners 2018. The 13th Trude Eipperle Rieger Prize for talented singers goes to the soprano Anna El-Khashem and the baritone Johannes Kammler. Kapfenburg Castle, accessed on August 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Ines Koring, Hendrik Baumann: Anna El-Khashem and Long Long win NEW STIMMEN 2019. Bertelsmann Stiftung, October 27, 2019, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | El-Khashem, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian opera and concert singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |